In recent years, the blackmail virus has continuously threatened the development of the digital economy. For two consecutive years, it has logged on to the top 5 business threats that business owners are most concerned about in Gartner's Emerging Risks Monitor Report. In 2021, the global economic loss caused by the blackmail attack reached 20 billion US dollars, and this figure is expected to reach 42 billion US dollars in 2024.

Large enterprises have huge and complex digital infrastructure, which has become one of the main targets of ransomware attacks. Building an effective ransomware defense system has become a top priority for many enterprises. As a leading chemical enterprise, Wanhua Chemical attaches great importance to data security protection in the process of digital transformation. It chooses Huawei's storage anti-ransomware solution to strengthen the construction of data security protection capability and build a digital security barrier.

Large enterprises have huge and complex digital infrastructure, which has become one of the main targets of ransomware attacks. Building an effective ransomware defense system has become a top priority for many enterprises. As a leading chemical enterprise, Wanhua Chemical attaches great importance to data security protection in the process of digital transformation. It chooses Huawei's storage anti-ransomware solution to strengthen the construction of data security protection capability and build a digital security barrier.

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wanhua Chemical is the world's leading chemical New Materials Company, with production bases, technical service centers and sales centers in 24 cities around the world and 12 national laboratories. Wanhua Chemical has comprehensively promoted the informatization transformation of the production business platform, launched the wisdom Wanhua 2025 plan, and is committed to building intelligent manufacturing, global integration management and control, efficient collaboration in the ecosystem as the main characteristics of the international first-class enterprises. Under the background of rising global ransomware attacks, once Wanhua Chemical's highly centralized information management platform encounters ransomware invasion, it will cause business interruption and bring inestimable economic losses. Wanhua Chemical urgently needs to build a solid data security defense line and guard the achievements of the construction of intelligent Wanhua.

When extortion software launches an attack, it usually encrypts normal files. In order to avoid extortion, in addition to the security protection scheme at the network layer, professional storage also needs to have anti-extortion capability. After repeated investigations, Wanhua Chemical finally chose Huawei's storage anti-ransomware solution and built an end-to-end security protection architecture from primary storage to backup.

In the production area, Wanhua Chemical adopts the highly reliable architecture of production storage Active-Active dual Active + isolation storage disaster tolerance, combined with the security snapshot of Huawei OceanStor Dorado high-end all-flash storage, technologies such as array encryption can prevent data tampering and leakage. Security snapshots are created every two hours for production and storage. A 15-day retention period is set for core production data. Core production services can be restored within two hours to ensure business continuity. At the same time, an Air Gap link is used between the storage in the production area and the storage in the isolation area. During data replication, the link is automatically opened, and after the replication is completed, the link is automatically blocked, effectively preventing Blackmail virus intrusion.

In recent years, the blackmail virus has continuously threatened the development of the digital economy. For two consecutive years, it has logged on to the top 5 business threats that business owners are most concerned about in Gartner's Emerging Risks Monitor Report. In 2021, the global economic loss caused by the blackmail attack reached 20 billion US dollars, and this figure is expected to reach 42 billion US dollars in 2024.

Large enterprises have huge and complex digital infrastructure, which has become one of the main targets of ransomware attacks. Building an effective ransomware defense system has become a top priority for many enterprises. As a leading chemical enterprise, Wanhua Chemical attaches great importance to data security protection in the process of digital transformation. It chooses Huawei's storage anti-ransomware solution to strengthen the construction of data security protection capability and build a digital security barrier.

In the backup area, Wanhua Chemical chooses Huawei's high-end backup storage OceanProtect X8000 with built-in anti-ransomware capability to back up and protect database platforms such as VMware virtualization and Oracle, SAP HANA, and SQL Server, use the WORM feature to lock backup data safely without tampering, and deploy the backup isolation zone as the last line of defense to ensure at least one complete and clean secure copy. In addition, the advanced re-deletion and compression technology of OceanProtect dedicated backup storage greatly improves the data reduction rate, saves 30% of the storage space, and truly reduces costs and increases efficiency.

In the process of digital construction of enterprises, there are many dangers and threats besides opportunities. Without a solid safety protection net, enterprises are vulnerable to devastating strikes. In the future, under the protection of Huawei's storage anti-ransomware solution, Wanhua Chemical will not be afraid of data security challenges, and boldly move forward with a fast and stable attitude on the road of digitalization and intelligence, leading all the way.